When someone is looking to disparage the pharmaceutical industry, they will often say that the industry lacks innovation and simply makes copy-cat or “me-too” drugs, drugs that are similar to other drugs already on the market. Dr. Marcia Angell, a noted “pharmascold” often focuses on this as this quote from 2007 shows.
“Most new drugs are not advances over old ones, but minor variations with new patents and higher prices. In other words, ‘me-too’ drugs. According to FDA classifications, fully 80 percent of drugs that entered the market during this decade are unlikely to be better than existing ones for the same condition.”
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